post answers to this question (This question might be protected, requiring earning 10 reputation on this site to answer)

post comments to this question or its answers

test suspected bugs with the editor or the rendering

post ponies (only when mods are asleep)

Beware that since the changes to syntax highlighting in December 2010, and the inline hints added in March 2011, no syntax highlighting is applied unless the question's tags or an inline hint enable it. So, to test highlighting here in the sandbox:

As of January 8, 2019, you can use GitHub-flavor fenced code blocks in your posts, specifying the language after the opening fence:

@BhargavRao When sandbox answers are moved to the archive, comments such as this one -- on the question itself -- aren't migrated; they're deleted.
– rgettmanApr 9 at 19:37

@rgettman, yeah, that is fine. I had used it for just a small demonstration. The linked answer itself is self-sufficient. Thanks anyway.
– Bhargav RaoApr 9 at 20:22

@BringBackThePolyglot Do you get notifications if I reply to your comment and then delete your comment before you visit the site? (for those wondering how I can single-handedly delete someone else's comment, comments containing "thanks" are automatically deleted as soon as someone flags them)
– Donald DuckApr 25 at 16:32

honestly the over 500 hundred upvotes for a sandbox post is taking this real time satire thing you guess do with rep points too far
– AdamMay 7 at 11:14

It makes me feel like doing one too like an onion announcing the Debian contributor community have been assigned complete authority and trust over all encryption matters for the central banks of the world but no, im an adult, I can show restrain
– AdamMay 7 at 11:16

no I'm seriously asking now, what does op mean when someone causes a user "breakage"? is that like the time I was not allowed to take the archer profile pic down for like 6 months? that did break me tbh
– AdamMay 7 at 11:22

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Important notice: Purple Pika Wizardry co. is not responsible for any damages resulting in the viewing of these unicorns, including but not limited to rainbowness, lack of tiredness, waffle disease, and jealousy of not owning these unicorns. Continue at your own risk.

Here are my pet unicorns, Fluffy, Fluffy Junior, and Fluffy Senior!

And guess what? They don't like skittles. That's right. My unicorns don't like skittles. I've trained them to eat the superior food, aka waffles (yeah, I've had a change in heart from my evil past).

Don't flag this as Not an Answer. Unicorns are the answer to anything. Waffles are the answer to everything. Unicorns that eat waffles are the answer to anything and everything.

@PikachuthePurpleWizard Of course something broke, the canvas is so big. The only reason you can't see the size is because of the marquee elements in the HTML that is 600 x 600 px. There was a (backwards) warning.
– Mr.YouKnowWhoIAmMar 31 at 22:09

@smileycreations15 It actually says in the warning that it may crash the browser, especially if you leave the tab on for too long or you have multiple tabs. I tested it on Chrome.
– Mr.YouKnowWhoIAmApr 6 at 2:43

You just made me want to learn javascript. I must learn how to make unicorns continuously appear out of nowhere!
– Pikachu the Watermelon WizardApr 15 at 3:00

@PikachuthePurpleWizard I don’t know much about JS, but somehow, I could do that. I generate random URLs from unicornify.pictures, and use CSS to add some borders. The setInterval function adds unicorns every millisecond. And the rainbow background must look familiar somewhere... You can click on the unicorns to open the images in a new tab. One issue is that the URLs end in zeros, since my source of randomness is a function that returns random decimals (Math.random()) that are multiplied by large numbers. Nevertheless, it still makes endless unicorns that fill the page. 😄‮
– Mr.YouKnowWhoIAmApr 15 at 3:14

The Comprehensive Formatting Test

Supported Markdown

Code Formatting

Inline code formatting or code spans

To place code inline, enclose your code in a pair of backtick characters (`). In the editor, you can highlight a portion of text in a single line and either press Ctrl-k or press the {} toolbar button.

Use the line `System.out.println("Hello World!");`.

Use the line System.out.println("Hello World!");.

Escape a backtick within inline code by enclosing the inline code with double-tickmarks:

Within code: ``for line in `someCommand` ``

Within code: for line in `someCommand`

A single backtick character in a line won't form a code block.

The backtick character is '`'

The backtick character is '`'.

To escape multiple backtick characters in a line, without forming a code block, escape the first with a backslash character:

There are two backtick characters ('\`') in this line ('`').

There are two backtick characters ('`') in this line ('`').

Outside of a code block, you can always escape any backtick character.

There are two backtick characters ('\`') in this line ('\`').

There are two backtick characters ('`') in this line ('`').

Block code formatting

To place a code block, indent the lines containing your code by 4 space characters. In the editor, you can highlight lines of text and either press Ctrl-k or press the {} toolbar button.

Headers

The number of # characters determines the header level, from 1-6. Any # characters at the end of the line are not rendered. Headings 4-6 seem to render as normal text, and any # characters beyond the 6th are treated as heading 6 with those additional # characters as part of the text of the heading itself.

# Heading 1 ###

Heading 1

## Heading 2 ####################

Heading 2

### Heading 3

Heading 3

#### Heading 4

Heading 4

##### Heading 5

Heading 5

###### Heading 6

Heading 6

####### Heading 7

# Heading 7

Alternates for headers 1 and 2

Use equals signs under the header text for heading 1.

Equals Signs!
===

Equals Signs!

Use dashes under the header text for heading 2.

Dashes!
---

Dashes!

The triple bar ≡ doesn't seem to do anything special here.

Triple Bar!
≡≡≡

Triple Bar!
≡≡≡

Escape # with a backslash or use the HTML entity instead.

\# Not a heading

# Not a heading

&#35; Not a heading

# Not a heading

# Heading ending with hashtag &#35;

Heading ending with hashtag #

Italic headers

# _Italic_ *Header* #

ItalicHeader

Horizontal Rules

Use 3 or more hyphens, asterisks, or underscores by themselves on a line. Pressing Ctrl-R inserts a horizontal rule for you.

---
***
______

Ctrl-R

Single spaces between the characters still works.

- - -
* * *
_ _ _ _ _ _

But multiple spaces do not work.

- - -
* * *
_ _ _ _ _ _

*
_ _ _ _ _ _

Blockquotes

Use > or highlight text and press Ctrl-Q to create a blockquote.

> Quoting something else

Quoting something else

>No space between > and text

No space between > and text

One can nest blockquotes with multiple > characters.

> First level!
>> Second level!
>>> Third level!
>>
>> Need blank line and one less < to go back to second.
>
> Same idea for back to first.

Certain words, regardless of case, don't form tags, regardless of capitalization or whether it's a meta tag. There are no other words, 4 letters or less, that don't form tags. The words "and" and "or" won't form tags. In preview, "not" won't form a tag but the actual post will render it. The preview renders them as the text is, e.g. [tag:Or] but the post will render it or.

Syntax Highlighting

Where it's supported, insert an HTML comment specifying the language for the following code block immediately following it. Subsequent code blocks are not highlighted unless they have their own syntax highlighting specified. (Sites such as Stack Overflow will infer the syntax highlighting from tags on the question, rendering this hint unnecessary.)

Allowed HTML

Only some basic HTML elements are whitelisted. Also, only some attributes within those tags are whitelisted as well. If specified, they must be in order! Those that don't meet these requirements are completely stripped from the content.

Why is this so freaking long?!?!? It takes up over half of the page!
– BookwyrmApr 2 at 1:38

@Bookwyrm It turns out there are a lot of features that can be tested, such as comment @ auto-replies. Comments are limited to 600 characters. Comments are limited to 600 characters. Comments are limited to 600 characters. Comments are limited to 600 characters. Comments are limited to 600 characters. Comments are limited to 600 characters. Comments are limited to 600 characters. Comments are limited to 600 characters. Comments are limited to 600 characters. Comments are limited to 600 characters. Com
– rgettmanApr 9 at 19:04

I am able to connect to the device using ssh, get into it's cli and run commands normally but not via ansible.
I ran asnible playbook with -vvvvv option and these were the logs.
command- ansible-playbook -vvvvv test.yml -i inv
output-

@MikeM. please don't hijack random post, even in sandbox. It cause inbox message to be sent, which some people consider as noise. Post your own answer and test comments as much as you want under that answer. Thanks.
– Shadow WizardApr 11 at 14:17